ASTM F609-96

Standard Test Method for Using a Horizontal Pull Slipmeter (HPS)

SCOPE
1.1 This test method covers measurement of the static slip resistance of footwear sole, heel, or related materials on walkway surfaces in the laboratory and in the field.  
1.2 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as the standard. The values given in parentheses are for information only.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 31-Dec-1995
• ICS: 61.060 - Footwear
• Technical Committee: F13 - Pedestrian/Walkway Safety and Footwear
• Drafting Committee: F13.10 - Traction

Relations

• Replaced By: ASTM F609-96e1 - Standard Test Method for Using a Horizontal Pull Slipmeter (HPS)
• Effective Date: 10-Feb-1996

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation:F609–96
Standard Test Method for
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Using a Horizontal Pull Slipmeter (HPS)
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F 609; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (ε) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
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1. Scope 4. Apparatus
1.1 This test method covers measurement of the static slip 4.1 Horizontal Pull Slipmeter—See Fig. 1.
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resistance of footwear sole, heel, or related materials on 4.2 Walkway Surface Panel, not less than 9 by 9 in. (229
walkway surfaces in the laboratory and in the field. by 229 mm) square.
1.2 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded
5. Reagents and Materials
as the standard. The values given in parentheses are for
5.1 Ammonium Hydroxide Solution,3%.
information only.
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1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the 5.2 Abrasive Paper, Nos. 60 and 400 grit.
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
6. Test Specimens
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
6.1 The test specimens shall be 0.5 in. (12.7 mm) in
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
diameter.
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.
6.2 Three specimens are required for performance of the
2. Terminology
test.
2.1 Definition: 6.3 In the case of test specimens that are to be cut from
molded slab stock as supplied from the manufacturer for
2.1.1 static slip resistance—the force required to cause one
body in contact with another to begin to move. This force is specification testing to be cut into shoe soles or heels, take nine
specimens in three sets of three specimens each. Space the
generally proportional to the perpendicular force between the
surfaces; the ratio of the former to the latter is called the specimen locations as nearly equidistant from one another as
possibleinordertoproviderepresentativesamplingthroughout
coefficient of friction. The ratio (with the decimal point moved
one place to the right) is used to designate slip index as the sheet. (No specimen should be taken at a position less than
measured by the Horizontal Pull Slipmeter. 1.0 in. (25.4 mm) from any of the four edges of the sheet.) The
purpose of this is to assure uniform thickness and state of cure
3. Significance and Use
among the specimens.
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3.1 The Horizontal Pull Slipmeter is a laboratory and field 6.4 For routine testing of sheet materials intended to con-
instrument designed to provide information about the slip- formtopreviouslyapprovedspecificationsampling(see6.3)of
resistant characteristics of footwear sole, heel, and related like material, the supplier and user of the material may agree
materials under dry conditions. However, the slip resistance of mutually to use a simplified sampling procedure yielding three
shoe sole and heel materials can be affected by factors other test specimens. A diagonal pattern is suggested, such as
than the reaction of these materials with walkway surfaces, for location A-1, B-2, and C-3 in the specimen location diagram
example, foreign materials on either the mating surfaces or the (see Fig. 2).
general maintenance of the surfaces. Consequently, unless all 6.5 When it is desired to test sole material taken from a
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factors are taken into proper consideration, acceptable results finished shoe, take one specimen ⁄2 in. (12.7 mm) from each
from the measurements of slip resistance will not necessarily side of the widest part of the shoe sole (commonly called the
assure resistance to slipping. “ball” area) and one specimen from the center of the toe area,
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This test method is under the jurisdiction ofASTM Committee F-13 on Safety
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and Traction for Footwear and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee F13.10 Available fromWhitely Industries, Inc., 939 C East St.,Tewksbury, MA01876.
on Traction. Phone: [phone]. Plans for the instrument may be obtained at a nominal cost
Current edition approved Feb. 10, 1996. Published April 1996. Originally fromASTM, 100 Barr Harbor Drive,West Conshohocken, PA19428-2959. Request
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published as F 609 – 79. Last previous edition F 609 – 79 (1989) . Adjunct No. 12-606090-47.
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TheHorizontalPullSlipmeterwasdevelopedbyC.H.IrvineofLibertyMutual Walkway surfaces for testing may be any suitable tiles or floor panels selected
Insurance Co., Hopkinton, MA. The instrument is described in “A New Slipmeter by the laboratory or user.
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for Evaluating Walkway Slipperiness,” Materials Research and Standards, Vol 18, Available from 3M Corp., St. Paul, MN 55100, and other abrasive paper
No. 12, December 1967, pp. 535–541. manufacturers.
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